Improvement in cradles



T..B. WAY.

CRADLE.

No, 179,144. Patented June 27,1876.

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THOMAS B. WAY, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CRADLE-ZS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 79,144, dated June 27,1876; application filed November 18,1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known'that I, THOMAS E. WAY, ofHoboken, in the county of Hudson and. State ot'New Jersey, have inventedan Improvement in Cradles, of which the following is a specification:

Cradles have been made of an open-work basket, suspended at the ends bymetallic straps attached to the top band; but most generally the cradlehas been made with wooden ends framed to corner-posts. These wooden endsare liable to split and the mortises and tenons to pull apart.

My invention is made for combining with the cradle-frame a bottom thatis connected to the suspeiMing-straps by means of bent slats thatrelieve the frame, the weight resting upon the bottom of the cradle, andtransfer such weight directly to the straps.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an inverted plan of the cradle. Fig. 2 is avertical section longitudinally of the cradle, with its supports inelevation; and Fig. 3 is an end view of said cradle.

The posts a, feet I), and connecting-rail 0 illustrate a means forsuspendingthe cradle from the pivots or gudgeons d, that projectinwardly from the said posts. The cradle itself is made of the framehaving side pieces 0, end pieces f, and corner-posts g. These are framedtogether with mortises and tenons, or otherwise secured together.Thetransverse slats or bands h are bent into a nearly semicircular form,and inserted at their ends into mortises in the side pieces 0. Theseslats pass below the bottom board It. The longitudinal bands la-reattached at their ends to the outer sur faces of the end pieces f, andthey extend down beneath the bottom board 7c, and, by prefer ence,extend to the slats h. They may extend from end to end of the cradle. Itis best to make these longitudinal bands of two thicknesses or strips ofwood, so that they will bend easily. These wooden portions, being firmlysecured together at their points of intersection, make a very strong anddurable cradle, and the metallic loops or straps m are attached to thebandsl at the head and foot of the cradle, and extend over the pivots(I, so that the suspending devices of the cradle are very strong, andnot liable to break away by the weight placed in the cradle, or thestrain in swinging or handling such cradle. The posts or corner-pieces yare each made with a diagonal slot in the lower end, and into this isattached one end of the band 0, that passes to the bottom board It, andforms a curved rib at each corner of the cradle, that serves to pre "cutany diagonal movement of the bottom of the cradle relatively to the topframe, and also to partially fill the space between the longitudinal andtransverse slats or bands.

In the cradle represented in Letters Patent No. 163,288 the curved bandspassing from the bottom to the rim are not connected directly with themetallic suspending-loops; hence the weight is liable to separate therim and the bands. This is avoided by my construction.

I claim as my invention- 1. The cradle made with the longitudinal bands1, extending from the surface of the end pieces f 'to the bottom of thecradle, and to which longitudinal bands the metallic loops at areconnected, substantially as set forth.

2. The corner pieces or posts g, each made .Witn'esses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, GHAs. H. SMITH.

